Background

Zakir Paul's articles and reviews have appeared in Germanic Review, L'Esprit Créateur, Athenäum, Critical Inquiry, and JML. He has translated Maurice Blanchot's Political Writings, 1953-1993 (Fordham UP, 2010), and Jacques Rancière's Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Arts (Verso, 2013). He is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role and limits lent to "intelligence" by French writers and thinkers, especially Proust, Valéry, and Bergson.

Before joining NYU, he taught courses in French, Comparative Literature and the Humanities at UW-Madison, the University of Chicago, SAIC, and Princeton, as well as the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Université Paris 13. His research has been supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fondation des Treilles.